Launch Center Pro
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Launch actions, not just apps!

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Description

Speed up everyday tasks with simple shortcuts. It’s like speed dial for apps.

Launch Center Pro saves you time by launching complex actions in a single tap.

Message a loved one, search Yelp for the nearest coffee shop, jump straight to the camera in Instagram, all with just a flick of your thumb. Create shortcuts for email, Safari, Twitter, Facebook, phone or FaceTime calls, Google searches, and more. If you do it on your iPhone constantly, Launch Center Pro will make it easier and faster.

“Launch Center Pro is an app of verbs. Search. Shoot. Call. Text. Add... With a simple tap-and-slide, you can launch apps, perform actions and more... It's so simple and fast that before long your muscle memory takes over and you don't even have to look. ” —Dave Caolo - TUAW

“Perhaps the highest praise I can give Launch Center Pro is that it finally kicked Safari out of my dock...” —Lex Friedman - Macworld

Sample shortcuts:

- Call a loved one- Message a GIF to a friend- Take a photo and message it to a group- Email your boss a report from Dropbox- Quickly search Wikipedia- Scan a barcode and search on Amazon- Jump right to your favorite website- Create a new item in OmniFocus- Search Twitter using Tweetbot- And so much more...

Launch Center Pro now works with over 100k apps!

For help with Launch Center or to submit feedback, please visit http://help.contrast.co

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Launch Center Pro is run in the background for just a few seconds when entering or leaving an iBeacon region or geofence. If you use iBeacons or geofences and are concerned about battery life, keep an eye on the new Battery Usage section of the Settings app.

Subscription Details:

- At confirmation of purchase, or following the completion of a free-trial period, payment will be charged to your iTunes account.- Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period.- Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. Automatic renewals will cost the same price you were originally charged for the subscription.- You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase.- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription.- Read our terms of service and privacy policy for more information.

What’s New

Version History

3.0.2

Dec 20, 2018

***So sorry for the hassle, this version fixes the bug causing purchases to not properly unlock features, as well as a couple of other minor bugs.***

Launch Center Pro 3.0 is a huge update and lays the foundation for the future of the app. In addition to the features listed below, we’ve made significant performance improvements (kind of important for a launcher app!) and modernized much of the code to provide a solid foundation for all the cool stuff we have in the works.

New in 3.0:• NFC Triggers: iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max can now trigger actions via custom NFC stickers! iPhone 7 and newer can use in-app NFC scanning.• Themes: We created a brand new “True Black” theme that looks gorgeous on OLED iPhones (and also looks nice on LCD iPhones)• Advanced scheduling: You can now assign multiple schedules to a single action• Add to Siri: Turn actions into Siri Shortcuts and trigger them with your voice• Alternate App Icons: choose from several color variations and all past Launch Center Pro app icons• Icon import from the Shortcuts app• Support for iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max screen sizes• Launch Center Pro for iPad has been retired, the iPhone version now supports both iPhone and iPad• Bug fixes and additional enhancements

With 3.0 we’re also making Launch Center Pro free to use, with a subscription or one-time purchase to unlock all features. If you’ve paid for Launch Center Pro in the past, you get to keep using all the features you paid for without a subscription. You also get several new features and all the bug fixes, speed improvements, and other enhancements we’ve been working on for months. You only need to pay if you want to access the new features added in 3.0. That said, we have lots planned for the app, and would certainly appreciate your support to achieve those goals. We went out of our way to make this transition as fair as possible for users who have previously paid.

3.0.1

Dec 18, 2018

***So sorry for the hassle, 3.0.1 fixes the bug causing purchases to not properly unlock features.*** Launch Center Pro 3.0 is a huge update and lays the foundation for the future of the app. In addition to the features listed below, we’ve made significant performance improvements (kind of important for a launcher app!) and modernized much of the code to provide a solid foundation for all the cool stuff we have in the works.New in 3.0:- NFC Triggers: iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max can now trigger actions via custom NFC stickers! iPhone 7 and newer can use in-app NFC scanning.- Themes: We created a brand new “True Black” theme that looks gorgeous on OLED iPhones (and also looks nice on LCD iPhones)- Advanced scheduling: You can now assign multiple schedules to a single action- Add to Siri: Turn actions into Siri Shortcuts and trigger them with your voice- Alternate App Icons: choose from several color variations and all past Launch Center Pro app icons- Icon import from the Shortcuts app- Support for iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max screen sizes- Launch Center Pro for iPad has been retired, the iPhone version now supports both iPhone and iPad- Bug fixes and additional enhancements

With 3.0 we’re also making Launch Center Pro free to use, with a subscription or one-time purchase to unlock all features. If you’ve paid for Launch Center Pro in the past, you get to keep using all the features you paid for without a subscription. You also get several new features and all the bug fixes, speed improvements, and other enhancements we’ve been working on for months. You only need to pay if you want to access the new features added in 3.0. That said, we have lots planned for the app, and would certainly appreciate your support to achieve those goals. We went out of our way to make this transition as fair as possible for users who have previously paid.

3.0.0

Dec 18, 2018

Launch Center Pro 3.0 is a huge update and lays the foundation for the future of the app. In addition to the features listed below, we’ve made significant performance improvements (kind of important for a launcher app!) and modernized much of the code to provide a solid foundation for all the cool stuff we have in the works.

New in 3.0:- NFC Triggers: iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max can now trigger actions via custom NFC stickers! iPhone 7 and newer can use in-app NFC scanning.- Themes: We created a brand new “True Black” theme that looks gorgeous on OLED iPhones (and also looks nice on LCD iPhones)- Advanced scheduling: You can now assign multiple schedules to a single action- Add to Siri: Turn actions into Siri Shortcuts and trigger them with your voice- Alternate App Icons: choose from several color variations and all past Launch Center Pro app icons- Icon import from the Shortcuts app- Support for iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max screen sizes- Launch Center Pro for iPad has been retired, the iPhone version now supports both iPhone and iPad- Bug fixes and additional enhancements

With 3.0 we’re also making Launch Center Pro free to use, with a subscription or one-time purchase to unlock all features. If you’ve paid for Launch Center Pro in the past, you get to keep using all the features you paid for without a subscription. You also get several new features and all the bug fixes, speed improvements, and other enhancements we’ve been working on for months. You only need to pay if you want to access the new features added in 3.0. That said, we have lots planned for the app, and would certainly appreciate your support to achieve those goals. We went out of our way to make this transition as fair as possible for users who have previously paid.

2.9.2

Sep 18, 2018

- Widget icons can now be resized!- Additional bug fixes and enhancements

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.9.1

Aug 14, 2018

We've reworked a lot of the app and fixed several lingering bugs in preparation for the big 3.0 update we've been working on. We wanted to get this update out now to make sure all the changes we made deep in the code don't cause bugs that would spoil the launch of Launch Center Pro 3.0.

- Added the ability to seamlessly switch languages while dictating (any languages set up as system keyboards will be available for dictation)- Accessing photos now displays a progress spinner- When creating an icon from a photo, the photo now centers properly- Improved handling of timezones and daylight savings for scheduled actions- Improved iPhone X support (GIF selection, message/mail compose views, etc. are no longer cropped)- Fixed day of the week selection for location triggers- Removed Twitter/Facebook/Weibo actions since iOS no longer supports those services natively- Added https to welcome view to finalize App Transport Security support- Dictation language is now set to the the system keyboard language. If keyboards in multiple languages are active, there's an option to seamlessly switch back and forth.- Fixed bugs related to case sensitivity and prepend/append in Dropbox actions - In Location Triggers setting a time no longer causes the contents of that row to overflow into the space below- Fixed help view UI on iPhone X- Fixed issue that was causing results to scroll over the search bar when searching for actions in the Action Composer- Additional bug fixes and enhancements

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.9

Mar 1, 2018

- Widget icons can now be resized!- Additional bug fixes and enhancements

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.8.2

Nov 3, 2017

- Support for iPhone X- Fixed a bug preventing location and iBeacon triggers from working- Additional bug fixes and enhancements

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.8.1

Oct 21, 2017

- Fixed a bug causing widgets to not be displayed on iOS 10- Fixed alignment issues

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.8

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.7.1

Jan 30, 2017

Due to the shutdown of Parse.com, Launch Center Pro no longer supports direct integration with IFTTT. We apologize for the inconvenience. All data and user accounts will be permanently deleted by Parse as it shuts down the service.

IFTTT now has an iOS app that does much of what was supported in Launch Center Pro. If you need to create more complex workflows with IFTTT, give the Workflow app a try.

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.7

Dec 21, 2016

- Updated for iOS 10- Added support for dictation in text prompts- Updated widget for iOS 10 including the new Quick Action Widget- Additional bug fixes and enhancements

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.6

Sep 24, 2015

- Quick Actions for iPhone 6s- Additional bug fixes and enhancements

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.5

Sep 15, 2015

- Support for over 100k new apps- Today widget- Additional bug fixes and enhancements

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.4.1

Oct 29, 2014

- Bug fixes

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review, it really helps! If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co or visit http://help.contrast.co for help.

2.4

Oct 13, 2014

- Support for iPhone 6- Bug fixes

We have a lot of cool stuff in store for Launch Center Pro, but wanted to get this quick update out to support the iPhone 6.

If you like Launch Center Pro, please take a moment to leave a review. If not, please send your feedback to launch@contrast.co

2.3.1

Jun 26, 2014

Based on feedback from 2.3 we made some big changes to the way input tags are processed. Manually creating complex actions should be much easier now. Visit help.contrast.co for more detailed released notes.

2.0

Oct 10, 2013

User Interface- New icon and UI designed for iOS 7- New themes available in settings- New action icon styles and colors- New group glyphs- Ability to use photos as icons- Ability to use web clips as icons- Prompt labels

Features- Dropbox backup and restore- Dropbox actions- Action sharing and import- Support for multiple prompts in a single action- Externally launch actions (launchpro://?url=)- Support for native Facebook and Sina Weibo actions- Support section added to settings

1.1

Mar 8, 2013

• In-app messaging actions — group messaging and preset text• In-app email actions — attach last photo taken or attach photo from the clipboard• Clipboard actions — place text on clipboard, place last photo on clipboard, convert text on clipboard, and x-callback-url support• Expanded Text Expander support — snippets can now be expanded automatically while launching an action• New Tweet action — tweet last photo taken• Reorganized Action Composer• Bug fixes and other enhancements

1.0.4

Sep 20, 2012

✓ iOS 6 support ✓ 4-inch screen support for the iPhone 5 and new iPod touch

Dec 20, 2018

Version 3.0.2

***So sorry for the hassle, this version fixes the bug causing purchases to not properly unlock features, as well as a couple of other minor bugs.***

Launch Center Pro 3.0 is a huge update and lays the foundation for the future of the app. In addition to the features listed below, we’ve made significant performance improvements (kind of important for a launcher app!) and modernized much of the code to provide a solid foundation for all the cool stuff we have in the works.

New in 3.0:• NFC Triggers: iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max can now trigger actions via custom NFC stickers! iPhone 7 and newer can use in-app NFC scanning.• Themes: We created a brand new “True Black” theme that looks gorgeous on OLED iPhones (and also looks nice on LCD iPhones)• Advanced scheduling: You can now assign multiple schedules to a single action• Add to Siri: Turn actions into Siri Shortcuts and trigger them with your voice• Alternate App Icons: choose from several color variations and all past Launch Center Pro app icons• Icon import from the Shortcuts app• Support for iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max screen sizes• Launch Center Pro for iPad has been retired, the iPhone version now supports both iPhone and iPad• Bug fixes and additional enhancements

With 3.0 we’re also making Launch Center Pro free to use, with a subscription or one-time purchase to unlock all features. If you’ve paid for Launch Center Pro in the past, you get to keep using all the features you paid for without a subscription. You also get several new features and all the bug fixes, speed improvements, and other enhancements we’ve been working on for months. You only need to pay if you want to access the new features added in 3.0. That said, we have lots planned for the app, and would certainly appreciate your support to achieve those goals. We went out of our way to make this transition as fair as possible for users who have previously paid.

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5

968 Ratings

968 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Everything’s faster with Launch Center Pro, a productivity app that lets you create shortcuts to quickly perform your most frequent tasks on iPhone. Once you follow the simple setup, a single tap is all you need to email your boss, tweet your last photo, jump straight to a favorite website, add an entry to a journaling app, and much more.

Editors’ Choice

Everything’s faster with Launch Center Pro, a productivity app that lets you create shortcuts to quickly perform your most frequent tasks on iPhone. Once you follow the simple setup, a single tap is all you need to email your boss, tweet your last photo, jump straight to a favorite website, add an entry to a journaling app, and much more.

I’ve had Launch Center Pro since it originally became available, and have always marveled at the features and options that it provided. When they announced V3.0, and everything that they were adding, I jumped at the opportunity, and purchased the full upgrade option to enable all of the features, and to support a great, long time developer. I had an issue though, after purchasing the upgrade, nothing unlocked... I went back to the App page on the App Store, and submitted a support request. I received a quick response from David apologizing for the problem, and that they had already submitted an update to Apple, and that they were pushing it through as quick as possible. I just installed the 3.0.1 update, and all is well - everything became available. Now I look forward to trying out some of these great features.

Thanks so much for a great app, and even more for the wonderful customer support - it is greatly appreciated!

I’ve had Launch Center Pro since it originally became available, and have always marveled at the features and options that it provided. When they announced V3.0, and everything that they were adding, I jumped at the opportunity, and purchased the full upgrade option to enable all of the features, and to support a great, long time developer. I had an issue though, after purchasing the upgrade, nothing unlocked... I went back to the App page on the App Store, and submitted a support request. I received a quick response from David apologizing for the problem, and that they had already submitted an update to Apple, and that they were pushing it through as quick as possible. I just installed the 3.0.1 update, and all is well - everything became available. Now I look forward to trying out some of these great features.

Thanks so much for a great app, and even more for the wonderful customer support - it is greatly appreciated!

eatstorming
, 12/18/2018

Another one jumping on the subscription bandwagon

I'll start this by prefacing that I do fully understand that developers need to make a living. I would love to find ways to justify helping that.

But I can't in this case. I got LCP months ago after reading and hearing way too many good words about it, but if I'm being honest, I don't think I have ever actually used it once. I just don't see anything it can do that Shortcuts/Workflow cannot. Maybe the actions are easy to setup, I'm honestly not sure.

However, this is the kind of app that just doesn't justify a subscription. Custom icons? A theme? Siri integration? NFC? Come on now.

The new version mentions future features that might incur extra costs as one reason for this. Sorry, but I'm not the type who pre-orders things. I understand how these particular devs are not the ones who screwed over lots of people in the past years worth of this pre-orders nonsense, but nonetheless the very concept is flawed and wrong.

I'll check again once these new features are released, but until I see real, good reasons for this app to have a subscription attached to it, I will treat it like all others that have attached a subscription for things that do not justify one, and will rate it as low as possible because this behavior needs to stop.

Developer Response
, 12/28/2018

Sorry you see things that way. While we do offer a subscription, we also worked quite hard to offer additional purchase options. Instead of the subscription, you can do a one-time purchase to get all current and future in-app features. Or you can just pay for the individual features you need.

When most apps do any kind of a ”paid update” they force users to download a whole new version of the app, and give very little, if anything, away for free. We worked very hard with 3.0 to make sure that everyone who previously paid for Launch Center Pro got to keep all the features they paid for AND got all the bug fixes and other improvements. If you don't need the new features, you can keep using the app for free and it’ll keep getting better and better. We’ll never take away any of the features you paid for, but we do need to charge something to make it financially viable to keep adding new features to the app. While this current batch of new features might not be especially compelling to you, keep an eye on the app, we have a lot in the works for 2019!

eatstorming
, 12/18/2018

Another one jumping on the subscription bandwagon

I'll start this by prefacing that I do fully understand that developers need to make a living. I would love to find ways to justify helping that.

But I can't in this case. I got LCP months ago after reading and hearing way too many good words about it, but if I'm being honest, I don't think I have ever actually used it once. I just don't see anything it can do that Shortcuts/Workflow cannot. Maybe the actions are easy to setup, I'm honestly not sure.

However, this is the kind of app that just doesn't justify a subscription. Custom icons? A theme? Siri integration? NFC? Come on now.

The new version mentions future features that might incur extra costs as one reason for this. Sorry, but I'm not the type who pre-orders things. I understand how these particular devs are not the ones who screwed over lots of people in the past years worth of this pre-orders nonsense, but nonetheless the very concept is flawed and wrong.

I'll check again once these new features are released, but until I see real, good reasons for this app to have a subscription attached to it, I will treat it like all others that have attached a subscription for things that do not justify one, and will rate it as low as possible because this behavior needs to stop.

Developer Response
, 12/28/2018

Sorry you see things that way. While we do offer a subscription, we also worked quite hard to offer additional purchase options. Instead of the subscription, you can do a one-time purchase to get all current and future in-app features. Or you can just pay for the individual features you need.

When most apps do any kind of a ”paid update” they force users to download a whole new version of the app, and give very little, if anything, away for free. We worked very hard with 3.0 to make sure that everyone who previously paid for Launch Center Pro got to keep all the features they paid for AND got all the bug fixes and other improvements. If you don't need the new features, you can keep using the app for free and it’ll keep getting better and better. We’ll never take away any of the features you paid for, but we do need to charge something to make it financially viable to keep adding new features to the app. While this current batch of new features might not be especially compelling to you, keep an eye on the app, we have a lot in the works for 2019!

Editors’ Choice

Everything’s faster with Launch Center Pro, a productivity app that lets you create shortcuts to quickly perform your most frequent tasks on iPhone. Once you follow the simple setup, a single tap is all you need to email your boss, tweet your last photo, jump straight to a favorite website, add an entry to a journaling app, and much more.

Editors’ Choice

Everything’s faster with Launch Center Pro, a productivity app that lets you create shortcuts to quickly perform your most frequent tasks on iPhone. Once you follow the simple setup, a single tap is all you need to email your boss, tweet your last photo, jump straight to a favorite website, add an entry to a journaling app, and much more.